{"id":85525,"date":"2019-03-10T15:38:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T19:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=85525"},"modified":"2019-03-10T15:38:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T19:38:52","slug":"president-george-h-w-bushs-service-dog-enlists-at-walter-reed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=85525","title":{"rendered":"President George H.W. Bush&#8217;s service dog &#8216;enlists&#8217; at Walter Reed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sully-1-e1552245887348.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"sully 1\" \/><br \/>\nSully, President George H.W. Bush&#8217;s service dog.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By: Terri Moon Cronk<br \/>\nSully, the celebrated yellow Lab retriever that was the service dog of former President George H.W. Bush, has joined the ranks of working dogs at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>Inducted by way of a paw shake and through an oath of office given Feb. 27, 2019, by Walter Reed&#8217;s director, Navy Capt. (Dr.) Mark Kobelja, Sully enlisted in the medical center&#8217;s facility dogs program, in which he will work with disabled inpatients and outpatients.<\/p>\n<p>During his enlistment ceremony at the center&#8217;s USO building, Sully was cited as &#8220;a true patriot&#8221; and was enlisted as a Navy hospital corpsman, 2nd class.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sully-3-e1552245949324.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"sully 3\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pinning on Sully&#8217;s devices were Evan Sisley, personal aide and senior medic to President Bush and Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Samantha Murdock, the leading petty officer for Walter Reed&#8217;s Facility Dog Program.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of the article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wearethemighty.com\/news\/bushs-service-dog-walter-reed?rebelltitem=4#rebelltitem4\">We Are The Mighty<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sully-4-e1552245967306.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"sully 4\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sully, President George H.W. Bush&#8217;s service dog. By: Terri Moon Cronk Sully, the celebrated yellow Lab retriever that was the service dog of former President George H.W. Bush, has joined the ranks of working dogs at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Inducted by way of a paw shake and through an oath of office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410,53,18,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bravo-zulu","category-soldiers-angels","category-support-the-troops","category-veteran-health-care"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-mfr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}